Bad timing

I started going to the sexually-transmitted disease clinic, as a doctor not a patient. Last week I had a couple coming in for check-ups. Phil and I were in the clinic. He saw the guy and I saw the lady.

I asked the woman the usual questions, one of which was about how many sexual partners did she have in the past two months.

"I know that my husband is faithful, I know that for sure, but I've been with a guy last week. Also another man from work a month ago."

I had to check her boyfriend's chart to see if he had any infections because those can be transmitted. I saw Phil coming out of his room.

"Hey Phil I'm seeing this guy's girlfriend. What does he have?"
"Not sure yet, haven't looked at the slide yet, but sure he's got something. Jeez! Six women!"
"Oh I thought he was monogamous"
"hehe no! He said he thought his girlfriend was, but he went in a business trip to Mexico...."
"And had lots of business?"
"Yeah lots of business and probably some gonorrhea"

I went back to the woman's room for examination. Of course neither Phil or I would tell them about each other's histories because they were confidential.

I started hearing the sound of thunder outside. Arizona is a very hot place but in the summer we get lots of thunder storms, rain and flooding. Two days before that we had power outages because of the rain.

I was about the start the exam, the lady was ready, and just as I started the lights went off. Ooops! It's the electricity again! I waited for a few seconds, didn't say a word just waiting for the lights to come back again, but nothing!

It was a very bad timing. It was 7 pm so most of the sunlight was gone. I could manage to move my chair back, take off the gloves and try to reach for the sink to wash my hands.

The lady laying there asked, "What should I do"
The nurse helped her in the dark to get up, and told her to reschedule for next week's clinic.
The security dude brought his light and showed us the way out of the clinic. It was difficult to drive back home since some traffic lights were off because of the outage.
I'm hearing the rain now and I'm hoping that if we're going to get an outage it better be in reasonable time, and at a reasonable place!